It’s all everyone in Hogwarts ever talks about now. Bellatrix and Rita had broken up—a nasty one, they said—a week ago, and already Rita has a new girlfriend. You watch with your friends from your House’s table as Rita flaunts her new victim around. You snicker as you take a bite of your sandwich. I wonder how she snagged a new one. Think blackmail worked? Ella Earheart snorts. Along with bribery, begging, coercion… At that moment Bellatrix walks in and the hall goes silent.